Detailed analysis on how the US is expediting the process to start deep-sea mining by removing social and environmental regulatory safeguards. From @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/06/expe...

Thanks to @regstud.bsky.social for funding our new research network on Uneven & Combined Transitions, w @lorena-lombardozzi.bsky.social, @susannewman.bsky.social & others not on here! Website, mailing list & webinar series to come in early 2027! Full info here: www.regionalstudies.org/news/uct-ejgs/

Another big step in the US' unilateral push to launch a deep-sea mining industry, as plans for domestic processing facilities announced. oceanminingintel.com/news/industr...

A reminder that ROAPE is looking for two affiliates to join the journal’s Editorial Working Group for a year starting from September 2026. Please apply by 9 June - all details are in the post! roape.net/2026/05/12/r...

Introducing an open access special issue on reparations & global health, Lebohang Liepollo Pheko argues that if the 19th century was the era of abolition & the 20th century of decolonisation (however incomplete), then the 21st century must be the era of repair. roape.net/2026/06/10/t...

🚨New special issue on mining, green transitions & uneven development in the global South. This thread links to the 18 contributions, introduced here along with my fellow guest editors @cdsbath.bsky.social Roy Maconachie, @yixiansun.bsky.social & Aidan Barlow: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Writing for roape.net, @sofiannaceur.bsky.social argues that the notion of ‘border management’ is rooted in counterinsurgency & pacification tactics, & embodies nothing but merging migration control & labor extraction into a single, neocolonial concept. roape.net/2026/05/06/t...

Why does studying global development and international relations often feel stuck in the past? ✨ New paper urges a shift beyond stereotypes towards a fuller understanding of Africa. Cynthia Kamwengo, Newnham College & @radleyben.bsky.social , @cdsbath.bsky.social buff.ly/eLkpxLr

An excellent and timely intervention from @drlandislife.bsky.social, deconstructing self-determination narratives around Senegal's recent move to pass homophobic legislation by highlighting the internal political dynamics & external US interests at play. roape.net/2026/03/17/b...

A powerful interview and testimony from Momodou Taal in @roapejournal.bsky.social, kicked out of the US for his pro-Palestine activism, connecting the Palestinian struggle to a longer history of Black, African and anti-imperial resistance roape.net/2026/02/25/o...

ust a reminder that I'll be talking on green imperialism in the Congo tomorrow at 1PM GMT as part of a @devcomms.bsky.social & @eadi.bsky.social webinar series. The link to register for the event can be found below... bsky.app/profile/radl...

DSA-EADI Working Group Webinar Series 2026: Talk by @radleyben.bsky.social about the dynamics of green imperialism in the Congo. 📅 26 February 2026 @eadi.bsky.social Find out more and sign up here: buff.ly/Yyy13jm

In a few weeks' time, I'll be talking online at a @devcomms.bsky.social[email protected] webinar about green imperialism in #Congo 🇨🇩, drawing on some of the ideas I wrote on the topic a few years ago (www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...). You can sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dsa-eadi-w...

In a few weeks time, I'll be talking online at a @devcomms -@EADI webinar about the dynamics of green imperialism in #Congo 🇨🇩, drawing on some of the ideas in a paper I wrote on the topic a few years ago (scienceopen.com/hosted-documen t?doi=10.1080/03056244.2023.2277616 ). You can sign up here:

Some important analysis in @ROAPEjournal on how recent DRC-US agreements tie Kinshasa to Washington's strategic priorities, coming the day after Glencore announced it's selling 40% stake in its DRC copper & cobalt mines to a US government-backed group. roape.net/2026/02/04/t...

Registration is open for the 1st webinar on 26 February! "Green imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the Congo", with @radleyben.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dsa-eadi-w...

Some excellent fresh empirical analysis here that succinctly paints a very clear picture bsky.app/profile/roap...

Writing for ROAPE, and drawing on original empirical data from eight African countries, Robin Jaspert argues that the profits reaped out of Africa flow into the hands of foreign capitalists mostly located in the global North. roape.net/2026/01/14/i...

Our 2025 offering of ROAPE's best reads for African radicals roape.net/2026/01/09/r...

Missed the announcement of the release of our new special issue on #Fanon at 100? Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation Find the journal alert and all the contents, free to access & download anywhere in the world, here: mailchi.mp/09af158365d9... #Fanon100

@roapejournal.bsky.social ending 2025 with a bang! A new special issue on the revolutionary Frantz #Fanon (1925–1961) stuffed full of contributions that critically reflect on his life & legacy. #Fanon100: class struggle and the future of African liberation bsky.app/profile/roap...

2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥 👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN 💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal. #Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation

1/2 🧵 🚨 Just in time for the holidays! We’re thrilled to share ROAPE Special Issue 186, Vol. 52, celebrating the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s radical life, work and legacy 🎄🔥 Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation buff.ly/gASaoZD

In an update from our post about Nigerian government arrests, imprisonements and torture from last year, the Abuja 11 finally get justice. Maxwell Adeyemi reports. #Nigeria #EndBadGovernance #Abuja11 roape.net/2025/12/12/t...

We also recently ran a full special issue on Western Sahara - 'Caught in the fishers’ net? The colonial plunder of Western Sahara’s natural resources' - which you can find here www.scienceopen.com/journal-issu... bsky.app/profile/roap...

ROAPE’s Reginald Cline-Cole introduces Volume 55 Issue 185 of the journal, with an editorial: Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism’s edifice 🔥 🔥 🔥

Thelma Arko & Kattia Moreno critically examine South Africa’s emerging green hydrogen sector, arguing that contemporary partnerships with European nations risk reproducing colonial extractive relationships under the guise of climate action. roape.net/2025/11/26/s...

Ethan Woolf argues that the UN’s endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara an abandonment decolonisation, legitimising occupation, erasing accountability, and sacrificing Saharawi self-determination for geopolitical convenience.

“We are nothing on earth if we are not first of all slaves to a cause — the cause of the people, the cause of justice and freedom.” — Frantz Fanon, who died on this day in 1961. 🚨 🎉 Keep a lookout: ROAPE’s special issue Fanon at 100 drops in the next 10 days 🚨 🔥 #Fanon100

Thanks to @sulaimanij.bsky.social for this invite to talk about Congo, mining & the global energy transition for @energyrevolution.bsky.social. Perhaps of interest to some. linktr.ee/energyrevolu...

Ben Radley explains why Congo sits at the centre of the energy transition, supplying over two-thirds of global cobalt and major copper for electrification. #EnergyTransition #Cobalt #Copper #CleanEnergy

New @roapejournal.bsky.social journal issue out, great stuff including an interview & reflections with the magnificent Issa Shivji bsky.app/profile/roap...

Shaun Milton reviews Saima Ndahangwapo’s new book Defending the Investment about uranium mining in Namibia, arguing it makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the history of decolonisation in Africa. roape.net/2025/11/05/d...

As part of @guerrilla_pod's African revolutions & decolonisation series, Henry Hakamäki spoke w. Josaphat Musamba, Prof Germain Tshibambe & myself about mining in Congo. History, environmental & economic impacts, nuances etc. 2 1/2 hours! guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/mining-the-c...

Sacolo Bafanabakhe outlines the historical processes of political, economic & social failure in #Eswatini that have led the Communist Party of #Swaziland to declare 2025 the Year of Mass Mobilisation for the Insurrectionary Seizure of Power. roape.net/2025/10/17/s...

Check out our new walking tour app that celebrates Black histories in Bath, from the Roman Empire to the present day. The app has been developed by Bath academics at CDS with BEMSCA. Learn more about the walk: www.devstud.org.uk/2025/06/13/b... @devcomms.bsky.social @radleyben.bsky.social

Drawing upon 41 interviews and 200 hours of observant participation, Siyabulela Fobosi delivers a scathing criticism of South Africa’s Taxi Recapitalisation Programme, arguing that it deepens precarity and workers’ resistance.

Or, to put it another way, DR #Congo - which provides around 3/4s of world cobalt supply - receives less than 0.6% of the value generated in the global electric vehicle value chain (much of which disappears overseas anyhow). Source: ecfr.eu/publication/...

Longstanding ROAPE editor Colin Stoneman recalls his impressions of #Zimbabwe under colonial occupation, the country’s liberation struggle and its leading unionist & political figures, including Morgan Tsvangiri. roape.net/2025/09/03/c...

Excellent to see this out after a bit of work steering it through. Learnt a huge amount in the process about a context I knew little of before. Includes a slightly different but wonderful article on artistic engagement in resistance through poetry & song bsky.app/profile/roap...

The editorial from the latest issue of ROAPE journal, including links to freely access all the listed articles: Caught in the fishers’ net? The colonial plunder of Western Sahara’s natural resources, by Blanca Camps-Febrer & Enrique Bengochea Tirado roape.net/2025/07/30/c...

Have written about this elsewhere but this idea that 'large-scale & small-scale mining operations can partner & flourish together' assumes small-scale happy to stay small. Risks cementing subordination of small (local/national) to large (typically foreign). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The brilliant Farwa Sial on the growing role of private equity in the global South, writing for the Developing Economics blog: developingeconomics.org/2025/07/23/p...

Keep an eye out for @roapejournal.bsky.social's upcoming Fanon special issue, due out in December 2025... bsky.app/profile/roap...

100 years ago today, Frantz Fanon was born. Martiniquais by birth, Algerian by struggle #Fanon100 was not only a seminal thinker of anti-imperialist struggles in Africa and the Global South, but also a revolutionary activist. "What matters is not to know the world but to change it"

A new working paper with @CynthKamwengo that hopefully provides some practical examples & ideas for how universities can decolonise, diversify, & update their social science curricula (& possible limits to these efforts): purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

Dr Cynthia Kamwengo, Research Fellow @newnhamcollege.bsky.social and @radleyben.bsky.social have a new paper in Multiversum. Deconstructing and reconstructing African development studies through student engagement and cross-cultural collaboration at a UK university: www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-in...

Today is the day. After weeks of the various distractions & disturbances that make up academic life, & the worry over a paper that's not moving forward, I have an entire day to write. And here I am, procrastinating, unable to write. Brilliant. Thanks brain.

Staff or student at @uniofbath.bsky.social ? Coming to @devcomms.bsky.social‬ conference at #Bath this week? Download this new (& free!) walking tour app on Android & Apple that celebrates Black histories in the city, from the Roman Empire to the present day. www.devstud.org.uk/2025/06/13/b...